Example sentences of "that [be] [adv] a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initially , they are stressful but that is not a reason to avoid them . |
| 2 | If my wife and I both go then the car is cheaper by £10 , but that is not a lot to pay for the increased safety of rail travel , the convenience of not having to take a car into London and indeed the fact that we can read or go to sleep on the train . |
| 3 | Am I being told that the law of England is so deficient that , if one assaults a person by driving a car at them to the danger of that person 's life or property — whether or not one damages either — that is not a crime known to the common law of England , and would it not attract the most condign penalties ? |
| 4 | But that is not a view held by those who lack the imagination to enter into the hearts and minds of others , and to do to them as they would be done by ; among them the then Home Secretary and the then Lord Chief Justice . |
| 5 | His Lordship concluded that the clause amounted to a non-possessory security right which was invalidated by virtue of s62(4) : I accept that the only recognised forms of legal hypothec ( that is where a person has security without possession ) are those of a landlord , a superior , a solicitor and certain maritime hypothecs . |
| 6 | That is n't a way to get through to people ! |
| 7 | The basis of this understanding of marriage is laid down in the very first book of the Bible : ‘ That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united with his wife , and they become one . ’ |
| 8 | For instance , sometimes the Profitboss will disagree with a decision made by his boss ; but that 's rarely a reason to resign . |
| 9 | so you er you take your shoe your socks off and you find you 've got a , some blood in your socks , and that 's where a leech had been . |
| 10 | I 've purely been concerned with the budgets of our own schools here in Oxfordshire and one of the ways that you can compare how efficient Oxfordshire is in terms of its expenditure is by looking at the national figures for recoupment , that 's where a county takes in a child from another county , and look how that compares with the amount of money the Authority spends on educating that child . |
| 11 | Erm , so that 's just a question to ask when you next come to erm this passage . |
| 12 | No , that 's just a thing attached |
| 13 | That 's just a label used by the Tories . ’ |
| 14 | That 's how a baby starts its day . |
| 15 | With average salaries currently at the £12–14,000 mark that 's quite a shortfall to make up if you want to be a working composer . |
| 16 | This bruiser 's called Tyson — that 's quite a lot to live up to . |
| 17 | And that 's quite a time consuming step . |
| 18 | Erm I think that 's possibly a term called allocation . |
| 19 | They have to keep a logbook but that 's only a check to make sure that nobody 's leaving a mess in the common areas and we only have it because we 've found that some residents can have problems because they 've become deskilled in certain things . |
| 20 | ‘ That was simply a letter delivered at the gate just before dusk . |
| 21 | That was just a pretence to cover up her real affaire . |
| 22 | Her hope of happiness was gone , all gone , and if she had to bear a little of the blame for not having told him immediately who she was , then surely that was not a thing to hang her with . |
| 23 | Oh that was almost a classic build up was n't it ? |
| 24 | With a new rabbit and a short-haired piebald guinea pig in a box , Victoria arrived at a once-grand Queen Anne house in Wiltshire that was now a school devoted to raising the daughters of the gentry . |
| 25 | I mean that was always a milkman used , there used to be er James was one of the milkmen down Palfrey , he used to come . |
| 26 | As for the argument that money would follow patients and so make it possible for hospitals to treat more of them , that was always a non-starter given that the total amount of cash available to purchasers was not going to be increased . |